It was visible in the cut of his dress, the tonsure of his hair, and the joining of the moustache to his whiskers.
Under a well-cultivated whisker uniting to the moustache upon his lips--in short the facial tonsure which distinguishes the habitue of the Horse Guards.
He showed an early inclination for the ecclesiastical state, and obtained his father's consent, though not without some reluctance, for his receiving tonsure in the year 1578, and the eleventh of his age.
Francis modestly, but very firmly, refused both; yet durst not propose to his parents his design of receiving holy orders; for the tonsure was not all absolute renouncing of the world.
The monks borrowed many of their customs from the old Egyptian priests, such as shaving the head; and Athanasius in his charge to them orders them not to adopt the tonsure on the head, nor to shave the beard.
In the grey light that streamed through the window, his tonsure showed like a large livid spot amidst his hair; and a slight quiver, as if from cold, sped down his neck.
But the tonsure had then been very small, hardly larger than a penny.
You came and moistened histonsure with your saliva, eh?
At this very hour Abbe Mouret could remember the chill of the scissors when he was marked with the tonsure at the beginning of his first year of theology.
No matter how or why it was done, no man who had received the tonsure could ever again sit upon the Gothic throne.
A man condemned to the tonsure could not serve as king or chieftain, but must spend the remainder of his days in seclusion as a monk.
The late Pope (the saints be good to him) once told me the tonsure was forbidden by God to the Levites in the Pentateuch.
That tonsure being all she saw, contradicted the tone effectually.
A large number of the inmates of the colleges round, and of the scholars walking the streets, wear the clerical tonsure, many scores have the coronaltonsure of the friar--yet the feeling in the air is secular.
Precisely the same regulations--for the tonsure and vestis talaris--were made for the scholar at the university of Paris.
The first little tonsurewas at least symmetrical, could be called interesting.
Well, after a while that little patch of gray hair began falling out, and finally it was a neat round tonsure on the top of the head.
As an undergraduate he had had no academical dress, except that, as every member of the University was supposed to be a clerk, he was expected to wear the tonsure and clerical habit.
On coming up to Oxford the student, however little he might intend to devote his life to the Church, adopted, if he had not done so before, clerical tonsure and clerical garb.
With goodly shoulder-blade and proper leg, A portly make and a symmetric shape, And curls that clustered to the tonsure quite.
And God must be trespassing also methinks; for he has allowed the Rhine to be, and the Hohentwiel and the Duchess of Suabia, and the tonsure on my head.
The mid-day sun shone on the smooth tonsureof the prostrate man.
Of fourteen marked by the tonsure two only returned.
This slight tonsure did not inconvenience the insects, so easily was the silky fur removed, nor did it deprive them of any organ which might later on be necessary in the search for the female.
On the next day they were marked, by means of a slight tonsure on the thorax.
Although the Irish Church conformed to Roman usage in the matter of Easter celebration and tonsure in the 7th century, the bond between Ireland and Rome was only slight until several centuries later.
With regard to tonsure it would seem that the druids shaved the front part of the head from ear to ear.
St Patrick doubtless introduced the ordinary coronal tonsure, but in the period following his death the old druidical tonsure was again revived.
That tonsurewas indeed ascribed by its Roman denouncers to Simon Magus [see above], but this is scarcely a sufficient foundation for the theory.
In this country it might be thought that the tonsure of priests was the only remnant of shaving the head; but we need go no farther than the East End of London to find Jewesses who upon marriage shave their head and put on wigs.
Thus, Cardinals, Vicars and Prefects Apostolic, and Abbots have the power of conferring tonsure and Minor Orders from Canon 239.
The candidate for tonsure must be a male who has received Baptism and Confirmation (sub levi), and who has begun his course of theology; he sins if he approaches without a divine vocation or with the purpose not to go on for the priesthood.
In the reception of tonsure the cleric is admonished to make his life agree with the garb which he then assumes, or, in other words, to cultivate the special virtues of his state (see 2596 sqq.
Orders, or at least to their preparation through tonsure (Canon 108).
Beyond its tonsure fringe, Birch trees and oaks, there pushed a thorn milk-white, And close beside it slept in shade a fawn Whiter.
Not only at the tonsure ceremony, and samavartana or closing of the Brahmacharya stage, but also on the occasion of sacrificial rites, the Maran acts as the barber.
Imagine a woman being asked in all seriousness whether she preferred death or the tonsure for her grandchildren.
The assumption of the tonsure and linen habit by a debauchee like Commodus does not reassure us.
That the emperors felt little fear of these foreign sacred corporations became clear when an emperor actually took the tonsure of Isis.
The initiated might even wear the tonsure in the ordinary lay life.
An Egyptian priest with tonsure and linen robes raises a dead man to life who has been "floating on the Stygian streams.
One Antonine built a shrine of Mithra,(2036) another took thetonsure of Isis.
The ministers of Isis and Serapis are marked off by the tonsure and the Isiac habit, which meet us in the pages of poets from Tibullus to Juvenal,(2998) and in the frescoes of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
In conclusion, all classes of men who are conspicuous by the tonsure or the sign of clerkship, against whom books lifted up their voices in the fourth, fifth, and sixth chapters, are bound to serve books with perpetual veneration.
In comparison with them, the multitude of monks seemed to be strongly distinguished individuals, in spite of the common tonsure and the common frock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tonsure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
